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Pakistan releases picture of bomber

By Jonathan Rugman

Updated on 20 October 2007

The Pakistani police have released a photograph of the suicide bomber who killed more than 130 people during the attempted assassination of the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.

The former Prime Minister, who had returned to Pakistan after an eight-year exile, was targeted as her convoy passed through her home city of Karachi. The incident has cast doubt on prospects for a peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy in January's elections.

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